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DRUNK MUM
"An intense, complex and disturbing story, bravely and beautifully told. I read Drunk Mom with my jaw on the floor, which doesn't happen to me that often." Lena Dunham
DRUNK MOM, Jowita Bydlowska's memoir that became a bestseller in Canada. Originally published in Canada with Penguin Books on May 27, 2014, this is a gritty and honest story of addiction. Please find the full pitch and praise below and the manuscript attached.
Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska finds herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It is a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marks Bydlowska's immediate, full-blown return to crippling alcoholism.
Her trips to liquor stores are in-and-out missions. Perhaps she's being paranoid, but she thinks people tend to notice the stroller. Walking home, she stays behind buildings, in alleyways, taking discreet sips from a bottle she's stored in the diaper bag. She know she's become a villain: a mother who drinks; a mother who endangers her child. She drinks to forget this. And then the trouble really starts.
In the grimly comic tradition of the bestselling memoirs Lit by Mary Karr and Smashed by Koren Zailckas, Drunk Mom is Bydlowska's account of the ways substance abuse took control of her lifethe binges and blackouts, the humiliations, the extraordinary risk-takingas well as her fight toward recovery as a young mother.
This courageous memoir brilliantly shines a light on the twisted logic of an addicted mind, the endless hunger of wanting just one more drink, and the transformative love of one's child. Her struggle to regain her sobriety is recorded in the an unsentimental, unsparing way. But the happy outcome is evidenced by the existence of this brilliant book: she has lived to tell the tale.
Jowita Bydlowska was born in Warsaw, Poland and moved to Canada as a teenager. She has published two books: a bestselling memoir, Drunk Mom (2013), and a bestselling novel, GUY (2016). She's had more than 20 short stories published in various magazines and journals and most recently, her story "Funny Hat" was chosen for Best Canadian Short Stories 2017. As a journalist she mainly writes about culture, social issues and mental health and has been published in many national and international publications. Jowita is also an accomplished photographer. www.jowitabydlowska.com
Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska finds herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It is a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marks Bydlowska's immediate, full-blown return to crippling alcoholism.
Her trips to liquor stores are in-and-out missions. Perhaps she's being paranoid, but she thinks people tend to notice the stroller. Walking home, she stays behind buildings, in alleyways, taking discreet sips from a bottle she's stored in the diaper bag. She know she's become a villain: a mother who drinks; a mother who endangers her child. She drinks to forget this. And then the trouble really starts.
In the grimly comic tradition of the bestselling memoirs Lit by Mary Karr and Smashed by Koren Zailckas, Drunk Mom is Bydlowska's account of the ways substance abuse took control of her lifethe binges and blackouts, the humiliations, the extraordinary risk-takingas well as her fight toward recovery as a young mother.
This courageous memoir brilliantly shines a light on the twisted logic of an addicted mind, the endless hunger of wanting just one more drink, and the transformative love of one's child. Her struggle to regain her sobriety is recorded in the an unsentimental, unsparing way. But the happy outcome is evidenced by the existence of this brilliant book: she has lived to tell the tale.
Jowita Bydlowska was born in Warsaw, Poland and moved to Canada as a teenager. She has published two books: a bestselling memoir, Drunk Mom (2013), and a bestselling novel, GUY (2016). She's had more than 20 short stories published in various magazines and journals and most recently, her story "Funny Hat" was chosen for Best Canadian Short Stories 2017. As a journalist she mainly writes about culture, social issues and mental health and has been published in many national and international publications. Jowita is also an accomplished photographer. www.jowitabydlowska.com
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Published 2014-05-27 by Penguin Books Canada |